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pembina

[ pem-buh-nuh, pem-bee- ]

noun

, Canadian (chiefly the Prairie Provinces).
  1. highbush cranberry.


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Word History and Origins

Origin of pembina1

1750–60; earlier panbina, pemine < Canadian French (now spelling pimbina ) < Cree ni·pimina·na, plural of ni·pimina·n, a derivative with -min- berry

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Example Sentences

It was supposed to have come from the Pembina country for those people had wheat long before the missionaries came.

I have heard that the carts around Pembina were formerly all like this, but in my day they generally had spokes.

The reception by the French half-breed residents of Pembina was90 not now so friendly as that of the previous winter.

The fatigues and mishaps of the journey to Pembina were, however, only the beginning of trouble for the winter.

Sheriff Ross, who was a visitor from the Settlement to Pembina in the dreary winter there, describes the scene of horror.

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